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Wonk Watch: Elizabeth Rubin, Roots of Impunity: Pakistan's
Endangered Press and the Perilous Web of Militancy, Security, and Politics, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.???
Drone attacks continue
Six days after President Obama gave a speech outlining the
curtailed use of drone strikes as a counterterrorism tool, seven people were
killed and four were injured early?Wednesday?morning in a strike in
North Waziristan,new balance 2013, the first since April 7 .?While early reports have not
identified the victims, three Pakistani security officials have said the strike
killed Waliur Rehman, the Pakistani Taliban's number two .??Rehman was poised to
succeed current leader Hakimullah Mehsud.??Despite claims that
Rehman's death would be a significant blow to the group,new balance sneakers, Pakistan's Foreign
Ministry condemned the strike as a breach of sovereignty,new balance 998 grey sale.
The chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl , Maulana Fazlur
Rehman, has offered his party's Qaumi Aman Jirga as a
place for negotiations between the incoming Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
government and the Pakistani Taliban,beats by dre 100 Colorado Creatives- Francis Roces, according to members from both
parties . There were also reports that Maulana
Samiul Haq,cheap beats by dre To Locate The Next Arab Spring, chief of his own JUI faction, had approached the PML-N with a
similar offer but Raja Muhammad Zafarul Haq, the party's chairman, rejected the
rumors as premature since the party has not yet formed its government .?
Kauser Saqlain, a senior lawyer with the Sindh High Court, and
his two sons were gunned down Tuesday?morning on Karachi's Mauripur Road .??The attack occurred as Saqlain
was taking his sons, aged 2 and 5, to school.??No one has claimed
responsibility for the attack, but it comes three weeks after another lawyer
and his father were killed in a similar attack on the same
road.??Lawyers boycotted proceedings at the Sindh High Court, city
courts, and district courts to protest the most recent killing .??
Violent?Wednesday
Seven insurgents wearing police uniforms and explosive vests
attacked a government compound in Panjshir?on Wednesday, killing one
police officer and wounding four others .??It is unclear how many of
the bombers were able to detonate their vests and how many were killed by
security officials protecting the building,new balance black, but none of the militants survived
the attack.?The Afghan Taliban has claimed responsibility for the early
morning attack in the normally peaceful province,new balance 420 sale.
Nineteen militants were killed in separate security incidents in
Helmand and Paktika Provinces?on Wednesday, according to Afghan officials
.??Two militants were killed
in Helmand while in Paktika,new balance sneakers women, two were killed when planting a roadside bomb,
were killed during a clash with Afghan Local Police, and three others were
killed in a separate gun battle with police.
In Faryab Province, four local policemen joined the Taliban and
surrendered their weapons?on Wednesday?after beating the checkpoint
commander who opposed their surrender ,new balance.?Another six members of the
Afghan Local Police fled the area after refusing to join the
militants,new balance women.?Three schoolgirls and a school employee were wounded on
Wednesday morning when a remote-controlled bomb exploded outside their school
in Ghazni City .?The suspected attacker, who had
attached the bomb to a bicycle, was killed by policemen after the
incident.?
Afghan pathologists at the Directorate of Forensic Medical
Services are working with family members to identify the remains of three men
who were last seen being picked up by an American Special Forces unit in the
Nerkh district of Wardak Province in late January .?At the Directorate, crime scene
investigators lack powerful microscopes and DNA testing equipment, so the remains
are being identified only by detailed knowledge of the clothes the men were
wearing when they were last seen. Afghan investigators have accused Zakaria
Kandahari, an Afghan-American man who worked with U.S. Special Forces, of
detaining, torturing, and murdering many of the missing men. None of the three
U.S. investigations into the issue have been made public.
British Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond confirmed on Wednesday
that up to 90 Afghans have been held for months by UK forces at Camp Bastion in
Helmand Province, but denied that they were being detained indefinitely, and
rejected comparisons to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay . Hammond said their prolonged detention
was a result of holdups in the Afghan legal system that have delayed their
transfer to Afghan custody.
Pakistan's Glee
‘Taan,
a Pakistani show similar to Glee, follows the lives and loves of a group of
young people in Lahore who regularly burst into song .??A 26-episode series scheduled
to air from September to October, Taan tackles several taboo subjects,
including love affairs between two men and between a Taliban extremist and a
Christian girl.??The show's producer insists it is not being used a
political pulpit and some of the more controversial topics,new balance sale, like homosexuality,
are suggested,new balance 420 black, not overt.??The show is hoping to draw both older and
younger viewers by using classic Pakistani songs and reworking them to be more
contemporary, a method Glee has perfected over four seasons.
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